Scan Results Review

This section helps you interpret the results of scans that use the Akeyless PAM integration.

Plugin Families and Plugins

The following Tenable plugins are relevant to scans using the Akeyless PAM integration.

Settings plugin family:

  • Integration Status (204872) Reports an overall success or failure of the Akeyless PAM integration.

  • SSH settings (14273) Reads the SSH PAM credential configuration and calls the Akeyless PAM integration to retrieve credentials for SSH targets. This plugin is not indicative of authentication issues by itself; authentication failures are reported by the credential status plugins below.

  • Login configurations (10870) Reads Windows (SMB) credential configuration and calls the Akeyless PAM integration to retrieve credentials for Windows targets.

  • Database settings (33815) Reads database credential configuration and calls the Akeyless PAM integration to retrieve credentials for database targets.

  • Nessus Scan Information (19506) Reports metadata about the scan including whether credentialed checks were successful. Check this plugin result first when investigating authentication issues.

  • Target Credential Issues by Authentication Protocol - No Issues Found (110095) Indicates that credentials were provided and authentication succeeded for all targeted protocols. A result from this plugin confirms that the Akeyless integration returned credentials and the scanner successfully authenticated.

  • Target Credential Status by Authentication Protocol - Failure for Provided Credentials (104410) Indicates that credentials were provided but authentication to the target failed. This may indicate that the credentials retrieved from Akeyless are incorrect or do not have sufficient permissions on the target host.

  • Target Credential Status by Authentication Protocol - No Credentials Provided (110723) Indicates that no credentials were available for the targeted protocol. If this appears when an Akeyless credential is configured, the integration likely failed to retrieve the secret.

  • Target Credential Issues by Authentication Protocol - Intermittent Authentication Failure (117885) Indicates that authentication succeeded for some targets but not others, which may point to per-target credential differences or intermittent Akeyless connectivity issues.

  • Database Authentication Failure(s) for Provided Credentials (91822) Indicates that the database credentials retrieved from Akeyless could not authenticate to the target database. Check the Credential ID and that the secret contains a valid username and password for the target database.